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Two units set to go live within three months Nairobi, Kenya |ISAAC KHISA | There lies a stretch of land in Isimba village on the Victoria Nile in Kayunga District,  44km downstream of the 250 MW Bujagali Hydroelectric Power Station where dust has never settled. In the past five years, …

  On July 26, 1962, the British House of Lords debated the `Uganda Independence Bill’. A look at the proceeding reveals many issues that troubled the leading politicians of the period. Top on that was list was the place of Buganda in Uganda, which remains to this day. Below is …

  Kampala, Uganda | AGATHER ATUHAIRE | Is Uganda’s main opposition party; the Forum for Democratic (FDC) worried over the recent departure of its former president, Gen. Mugisha Muntu to form a new political formation? Some analysts say FDC has every reason to be worried. They estimate that Muntu might …

Kampala,  Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has paid tribute to former Tanzanian President, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere for playing a leading role in the liberation of Africa. The President made the remarks at Makerere University where he delivered an inaugural lecture and launched the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere …

Goma, DR Congo | AFP |  The Democratic Republic of Congo’s region of Kivu, where 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner doctor Denis Mukwege is based, has been caught up in conflict and war for 24 years. The fighting inflicts on Kivu — which is divided into North and South provinces …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The #MeToo campaign has given mostly Western women confidence to speak up about violence at the hands of men, but in Africa women say stigma and victim-blaming still keep many silent. Fiercely patriarchal societies and religious and traditional views on the role of women means …

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Kandak, South Sudan | AFP | South Sudan’s warring leaders signed another peace deal last month, but while the political elites prepare to carve up power once again, hunger and fighting continue far from the capital. “We heard they signed peace, but we’ve yet to see it here,” said Mary …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Lake Victoria is the biggest lake in Africa and crossed every day by scores of boats that are often poorly maintained and overloaded, making them vulnerable to poor weather. Here is some background on the vast lake where more than 200 people drowned last month …

SCOVIA: This is my fourth baby; I am lucky this one has survived. My third born died while I was delivering at home. Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Legislators on the Committee on Health on an oversight visit came to the aid of an expectant mother and helped her …